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public aqendes for a variety of public purposes Including outdoor 

 recreation. The objectives werelargely resource-protection oriented 

 and the facility develoDment which took Dlace during the 1930's was 

 directed far more at providing employment than meeting, 1n a planned 

 fashion, identified outdoor recreation needs. 



The years of World War II and a suddenly released affluence during 

 the decade following the cessation of hostilities combined to pro- 

 duce an enormous awareness on the part of a rapidly changing society 

 that the opportunities afforded by the public stock of resource areas 

 was inadequate to meet their needs. A variety of landmark investi- 

 gations Into the status of outdoor recreation were undertaken and 

 published during that decade. Principal among them were: intensive 

 studies of the shorelines of the United States by the National Park 

 Service, and a preparation of Operations Outdoors Program by the 

 United States Forest Service. These Investigations sulminated in 

 the establishment of a California Outdoor Recreation Study Committee 

 and the National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission. 



Measures of Demand 



Both these studies for the first time demonstrated the basic causal 

 factors in outdoor recreation demand. In effect, they found that 

 adequate olanninq for outdoor recreation required larger concerns 

 than the biophysical environment; that the economic environment — 

 expressing the preference of society for goods and services -- and 

 the institutional environment — decisions about the focus and 



